c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories." — Chris Van Hollen
"My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education." — Renee Fleming
"There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry." — Jimmy Buffett
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." — Joseph Addison
"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology." — Koichi Tanaka
"Polite conversation is rarely either." — Fran Lebowitz
"As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up." — Janet Jackson
"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice." — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story." — Mitt Romney
"We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves." — Margaret Cho
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures." — Tom Peters
"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me." — Hakeem Olajuwon
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." — Ambrose Bierce
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." — Marcus Garvey
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." — Christopher Morley
"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history." — Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness." — Robert Delaunay
"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television." — Joan Rivers
"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership." — Mary Augusta Ward
"I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose." — Jason Reitman
"My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them." — Laura Linney
"I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children." — Alanis Morissette
"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body." — Raymond Holliwell
"I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car." — Peter Tork
"'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say." — Dick Morris
"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." — Amy Sedaris
"Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator." — Glenn Hughes
"When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that." — Jill Scott
"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it." — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects." — Patricia Velasquez
"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love." — Jo Nesbo
"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them." — P. J. O'Rourke
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure." — Anna Neagle
"I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes." — Rebecca Black
"I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home." — Rachel Weisz
"Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement." — Dwight L. Moody
"I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to." — Michael Nutter
"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something." — John Lewis
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." — Wayne Gretzky
"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words." — Anna Quindlen
"You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life." — Madeleine Peyroux
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I." — Oscar Levant
"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles." — Lafcadio Hearn
"Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly." — Aeschylus
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would." — Thomas Hardy
"I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning." — Alice Cooper
"For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for." — Marco Rubio
"Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist." — Robert Lanza
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths." — Steven Wright
"I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal." — Frances O'Grady
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it." — Igor Stravinsky
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus." — Wallace Stegner
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me." — Paul Cezanne
"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools." — Polly Toynbee
"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life." — Peter Tosh
"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will." — Josh Hartnett
"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation." — Eugene Ionesco
"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer." — Richard Branson
"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion." — Jim Rohn
"You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage." — Jeremy Sisto
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance." — Jean-Francois Lyotard
"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them." — Richard Dooling
"In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening." — Oren Peli
"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage." — John W. Gardner
"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time." — Steven Biko
"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people." — Abdul Kalam
"If we are not free, no one will respect us." — Abdul Kalam
"Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous." — Chris Rock
"I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music." — Michael Schenker
"What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control." — Paul Ryan
"I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies." — Richard King
"I fear God and respect God and love God." — Brett Ratner
"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own." — Nora Ephron
"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show." — Ethel Waters
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." — William Makepeace Thackeray
"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing." — Joseph de Maistre
"It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!" — Anthony de Mello
"If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history." — David Suzuki
"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail." — Ehud Olmert
"Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky." — Al Pacino
"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday." — John L. Phillips
"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it." — John Bunyan
"It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward." — Elena Kagan
"I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me." — Tori Amos
"I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car." — Danica Patrick
"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation." — Woodrow Wilson
"So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks." — Jose Mourinho
"The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality." — Deepak Chopra
"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost." — Buffalo Bill
"I grew up in a dysfunctional family." — Melissa Gilbert
"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter." — Charles Baudelaire
"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time." — Thomas J. Watson
"Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen." — Brad Meltzer
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president." — Karen Hughes
"Clarity affords focus." — Thomas Leonard
"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure." — Errol Flynn
"My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team." — Kyle Chandler
"Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day." — Marissa Mayer
"On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children." — Alveda King
"My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play." — Freddy Adu
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." — George Bernard Shaw
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world." — Carl Sandburg
"I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from." — Robert Walpole
"In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope." — James Gunn
"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes." — Brian Ferneyhough
"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself." — Emmet Fox
"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth." — Clint Eastwood
"Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death." — Buddha
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired." — Joseph Roux
"Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started." — Michael Morpurgo
"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you." — Ralph Nader
"I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire." — Angelina Jolie
"I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read." — Janis Ian
"I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive." — Yoko Ono
"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper." — Chuck Klosterman
"So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress." — Sri Mulyani Indrawati
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." — William Congreve
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." — Orison Swett Marden
"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers." — Cliff Stearns
"I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that." — Barbara Kingsolver
"To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun." — John Legend
"I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads." — Garrett Hedlund
"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality." — George William Russell
"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain." — Thomas Friedman
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world." — Arthur Erickson
"The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education." — Carol Bellamy
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind." — Maxwell Bodenheim
"In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change." — Sarah Palin
"Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do." — Quentin Tarantino
"Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution." — Tony Kushner
"Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices." — L'Wren Scott
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." — Edith Wharton
"We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter." — John D. Rockefeller
"The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe." — Gustav Heinemann
"As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty." — Idina Menzel
"What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies." — Fareed Zakaria
"If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's." — Kathleen Sebelius
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking." — Margaret Fuller
"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side." — Steven Wright
"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment." — Pearl S. Buck
"In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous." — Archie Shepp
"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit." — Benjamin Disraeli
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." — Ambrose Bierce
"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans." — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people." — Ariel Sharon
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" — Henry David Thoreau
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." — Honore de Balzac
"I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money." — Shaquille O'Neal
"Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business." — Charlie Sheen
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it." — Mary Astell
"When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order." — Erica Jong
"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way." — Beth Ditto
"Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives." — Henry Reed
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out." — Marc Newson
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" — Jean Cocteau
"Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing." — Enid Nemy
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher." — Simon Newcomb
"My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?" — Bill Keller
"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever." — Andy Partridge
"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all." — Jennifer Sky
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him." — Blaise Pascal
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art." — Adolf Loos
"I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me." — Portia de Rossi
"To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light." — Coventry Patmore
"My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience." — David Cassidy
"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money." — Sophocles
"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible." — Peter Agre
"There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation." — Wynton Marsalis
"Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place." — Neil Kurshan
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." — Oscar Wilde
"I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth." — James Cameron
"Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all." — Rob Sheffield
"It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed." — Kendrick Meek
"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run." — Haruki Murakami
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." — Robert H. Schuller
"Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that." — Michael Symon
"I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light." — Patrick Swayze
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." — Bruce Feirstein
"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!" — John Hughes
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy." — Joseph Campbell
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood." — Franz Liszt
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience." — Francis Bacon
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." — Walter Scott
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." — Woodrow Wilson
"Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do." — Mel Gibson
"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less." — Billy Sunday
"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres." — Alexander Pope
"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." — Edgar Allan Poe
"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing." — Susan Sontag
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." — Henry Ward Beecher
"The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet." — Hulk Hogan
"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds." — Joan Rivers
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." — Andy Rooney
"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on." — Emil Zatopek
"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music." — Sid Vicious
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." — Ernest Holmes
"Imagination creates reality." — Richard Wagner
"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace." — Arthur Henderson
"One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that." — Mo Rocca
"By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown." — Iain Duncan Smith
"You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong." — Barbara Bush
"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." — Soren Kierkegaard
"It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?" — Dwight L. Moody
"I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world." — Robert Carlyle
"I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear." — Florence Welch
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner." — John Updike
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." — Emily Bronte
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard." — Carl Sandburg
"Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out." — Dan Farmer
"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe." — Anne Bronte
"I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care." — Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." — John Wooden
"But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter." — Elle Macpherson
"I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong." — Michael Phelps
"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." — Michael Dell
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people." — Irving Babbitt
"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?" — Virginia Woolf
"I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way." — Antonio Banderas
"My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks." — Aisha Tyler
"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind." — Don Marquis
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." — Bertrand Russell
"It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'" — Marco Rubio
"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead." — Lady Gaga
"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks." — Steve Martin
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." — Charles Spurgeon
"Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather." — Ilka Chase
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more." — John Adams
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results." — James Allen
"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization." — Harold S. Geneen
"Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters." — M. Night Shyamalan
"I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get." — Lea Michele
"I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer." — Robert Kiyosaki
"I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure." — Michael Malone
"It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely." — John le Carre
"Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them." — Jeffrey Kluger
"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position." — Thom Mayne
"Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day." — Phil Knight
"Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool." — Eddie Van Halen
"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness." — Henry Miller
"There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'" — Arthur Ashe
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me." — Maya Lin
"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment." — Fred Brooks
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." — Ambrose Bierce
"American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation." — Camille Paglia
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change." — Katherine Mansfield
"Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure." — Izabel Goulart
"I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes." — Miuccia Prada
"My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience." — Jack Kevorkian
"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty." — Phil Ochs
"Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon." — Carl Hiaasen
"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose." — Barbara Ehrenreich
"There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized." — Conan O'Brien
"In 1965, I marched for equality." — Alphonso Jackson
"We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?" — Thomas Frank
"I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies." — Christopher Meloni
"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate." — Donald Trump
"I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic." — Kevin Bacon
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." — Earl Wilson
"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy." — Ann Coulter
"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving." — Gary Vaynerchuk
"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results." — Calvin Coolidge
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." — Sigmund Freud
"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination." — Bill Moyers
"The only risk of failure is promotion." — Scott Adams
"Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria." — William Hague
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school." — Mary Antin
"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly." — Sam Mendes
"The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising." — Gus Van Sant
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." — Martin Luther
"I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult." — Lionel Richie
"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most." — Walter Pater
"Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films." — Carter Burwell
"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?" — Jackie Kennedy
"Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done." — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free." — Bill Hicks
"A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part." — Redd Foxx
"Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way." — Ted Nugent
"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means." — Adam Sandler
"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?" — E. O. Wilson
"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it." — Henry Ward Beecher
"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure." — Alan Rickman
"You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business." — Gail Simmons
"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train." — Morihei Ueshiba
"The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution." — Jeff Goodell
"I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be." — Marilyn Manson
"If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste." — Marc Andreessen
"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." — John Foster Dulles
"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way." — John Boehner
"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'" — Billy Graham
"I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble." — Monica Seles
"I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision." — J. Michael Straczynski
"It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk." — Josh Radnor
"I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home." — Robert Plant
"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?" — Bill Gates
"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor." — Martin Van Buren